Research Catalog

Title

Father of Persian verse. Rudaki and his poetry. Sassan Tabatabai.

Author

Tabatabai, Sassan, 1967-

Publication

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2010.

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Details

Description

124 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Abu 'Abdollâh' Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki (c. 880 CE-941 CE) was a poet to the Samanid court which ruled much of Khorâsân (northeastern Persia) from its seat in Bukhara. He is widely regarded as 'the father' of Persian poetry, for he was the first major poet to write in new Persian language, following the Arab conquest in the seventh and eighth centuries, which established Islam as the official religion, and made Arabic the predominant literary language in Persian-speaking lands for some two centuries. This book presents Rudaki as the founder of a new poetic aesthetic, which was adopted by subsequent generations of Persian poets. Rudaki is credited with being the first to write in the rubâi form; and many of the images we first encounter in Rudaki's lines have become staples of Persian poetry.

Series Statement

Iranian Studies series

Uniform Title

Silsilat al-dirāsāt al-Īrānīyah

Subject

• Rūdakī, active 10th century > Criticism and interpretation
• Rūdakī, active 10th century > Translations into English
• Arabic poetry > 750-1258 > History and criticism
• Quatrains, Persian

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-122).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The poetry of Rudaki -- Elegies -- Panegyric poems -- Poems of complaint -- Meditations on life, death and destiny -- Love and its afflictions -- Nature poems -- Wine poems -- Ruba`iyat.

ISBN

• 9789087280925
• 9087280920

OCLC

• 662406101
• SCSB-10937507

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library